2 : A Concept Re-Engineering Exercise : A Concept Re-Engineering Exercise Concept Reengineering: rethinking public spaces in the digital transition The deployment of ICTs and their uptake by society affects radically the human condition, insofar as it modifies our relationship to ourselves, to others and to the world. (...) The Onlife Initiative - Concept Reengineering exercise intends to explore this impact within the policy realm of the Digital Agenda for Europe. 2

4 Ausgangsthesen: 1. The blurring of the distinction between reality and virtuality 2. The blurring of the distinction between people, nature and artefacts 3. The revearsal from scarcity to abundance, when it comes to information 4. The revearsal from entity s primacy over interactions to interactions primacy over entities 4

8 Onlife: Ergebnisse Hyperconnectivity Identity, selfhood and attention Complexity, responsibility and governance The public sphere in a computational era Hyperconnectivity Hyperhistory and the Philosophy of Information Policies (Floridi) View and examples on Hyperconnectivity (Ganascia) Identity, selfhood and attention Media Usages and the Futures of Democracy and Equality (Ess) For a Grey Ecology (Lobet-Maris & Broadbent) The Concept of Life and Reinventing in the Digital Era (Laouris) Complexity, responsibility and governance Distributed Epistemic Responsibility in a Hyperconnected Era (Simon) Good Onlife Governance: On Law, Spontaneous Orders, and Design (Pagallo) The public sphere in a computational era Onlife, the Public(s) and Legal Protection by Design (Hildebrandt) Rethinking the Human Condition in a Hyperconnected Era (Dewandre) Designing the Public Sphere: IT and the Politics of Mediation (Verbeek) From Creative Commons to Civilized Commons (Oates) Public Use of Reason: In reality, virtuality or fictitionality?( Thorseth) 8